Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 29,788, Samuel Favour, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Favour Samuel
S 29788
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10567 Massachusetts
Sam l Faxon
of Shelburne in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company by Captain Nutter of the Reg t . by Col l Reynolds in the Mass une for 6 months En d at 3 " " Corporal
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 31 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of April 1833 and sent to Richardson  Woburn Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $62.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept., 15.50 $77.50
{ Revolutionary Class, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. A. D. W. Clerk Book 2 Vol. 2 a Page 24
93 Mrs. Faxon

Commonwealth Middlesex
of Massachusetts.
ss.
On this twenty-second day of August A.D. 1832 - personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Judge of Probate now sitting at Charlestown within and for the Carmy - aforesaid
Samuel Faxon aged seventy one years, resident, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say
he volunteered, or enlisted as a corporal in the Selectmen of Newton, Thaddeus H. H. For three months marched to Portsmouth N.H. & quarreled with one on board - in Capt. Nathan Brown's Company. 3rd there was no Col., being only four companies was discharged , as near as I can remember the last in October - one part of Dunbar 1775 - haver and my term of three months
In 1775. at Newton in Mass.  enlisted into Capt. Griswold's Company, in Col. Wadsworth's  Brigade marched to Rhode Island, to Providence - Quarrelled other places. There was a battle in August, I was on guard at the Quincy , but saw the work - was not in a heavy storm first  August - discharged in October - near Providence; served three months.
In 1781. enlisted at Newton N.H. in August March in the State service for three months marched in September - in the Company commanded by Capt. Isaac  Webster of Newton N.H. - Col. Webster regiment , of Lord's  Brigade . - to Chatham , connected with the Charlestown N.H. & Sanctuary , after returning to Charlestown , where we were discharged the last of November same year - were on the morning of the time , - I had no written discharge, but was regularly & honorably discharged at the end of each term. I have no evidence other than what is contained in the
following lists in my hand, - 2nd the affidavit of your friend  Jacob  Pease - Samuel Huse , & Daniel  Sansever ...

There being no Clergyman, or other person, in the town of Walmer who could attest to the report, or belief of my being in the Revolutionary service -
He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Daniel Faxon
Clergyman residing in the town of in the County of
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Faxon who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
And the said Court thereupon proceeded to propound the following interrogatories, which he answered under oath, as follows:
1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer, Newtown, Hadingham County, N.H. in the year 1761 - 10 th of October -
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, said I have - in said Newtown records,
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Always lived in said Newtown till I was about twenty five years old - then lived in New Chester, N.H. for a few years, since I lived in Walmer, where I reside now.
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer, I enlisted every town
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental, and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, or long years - Col. Woodman & Genl. Sullivan in which I served - Col. Maynard - at west end -
6. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer, I saw Newton, John Hutton - Jacob Pugh - David Rose - David Faxon in Walmer, Elijah Leath, & Hymen Richardson - Daniel Faxon

On the said application the President does hereby declare his opinion that after investigating the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above na- med applicant was a soldier in the New- hampshire service as he states and the Court further certify that it appears to them from that David Sargent & Samuel Nurse, of Kingston & Newton in N. Hampshire whose affidavits are annexed are credible persons that their statements are entitled to credit -
J. P. Fay Clerk
I, Isaac Fisher, Clerk of the Court of Pensions aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Sargent for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty second day of August A.D. 1832.
Isaac Fisher

3573
Same Favour
Wats
Colonel 3 Months
Private 6 "
papers not proofed
authenticated
Nov 5 1832
My man Richard
(Robbarn) mass

3573
BRIEF in the case of  Sam. Favour of  Hoburn & Middlesex  in the State of  Mass.  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court of Probate  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? _____  3. How old is he? 71  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     to last Oct. or Nov. 1775 _____ 3 _____ corporal Capt. Nathan Brown {Liberty's Tree, 1st Reg. Col.,   July '78 - to Oct '78 _____ 3 _____ private Capt. G. Clark - Col. Wallsmouth   1781 - to last Nov. _____ 3 _____ " Capt. Jacob Webster { Col. Reynolds or Ruggles }  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Newtown  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  one living Witness — Tradition  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  The ribbon does not pass under the Seal  no clergyman's certificate 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W.C. Easton Examining Clerk.
of Roxbury

29 788 Very INVALID.
File No. 29,788
Samuel Aaron
Coast Rev. Div.
Act: June 1 st 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 181
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Samuel Farrow Map
Wymon Richardson Noburn Map

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Saml Favour which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides ? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides ? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so ? [Handwritten line] IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served ? Yes V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled ? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations ? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832 ? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion ? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate ? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed ? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal ? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
Yes
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
_____
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
Yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Capt. Jacob Webster for ship's stores - 22 Sept. 17 1701 to 25 Nov.
Testimony for James Fossom.

I Jacob Webster of Kingston in the State of New Hampshire and County of Rocking- ham do testify and say that some time in the month of September 1781, I entered Samuel Favour into my company as a private Soldier to serve in the Revo- lution War for three months. That some time in the same September the said Samuel Favour  on the twenty second day of said September I marched from my company at Litchfield in the State in of Connecticut. At said Litchfield I re- ceived express orders to march my com- pany to Charlestown in New Hampshire and the said Samuel Favour marched with me. At said Charlestown I received orders to march to Saratoga, that before I got there I received orders to march to Castleton on Vermont. After serving at Castleton a short time we was ordered back to Charle- stown and there we served until the twenty fifth day of November A.D. 1781. I was Captain of said Company and the said Samuel Favour served in my company as a private Soldier

Testimony for Samuel Hovey.
Soldier during the above mentioned time I and my company was then on the 25th. of November discharged by Daniel Praynolds, Lieutenant Col, Commandant of the Regiment to which my company was attached. Jacob Webster
State of New Hampshire } County of Rockingham } Then personally appeared Jacob Webster, who signed the above affidavit, and made solemn oath that said affidavit is true, before me. Isaac Webster Justice of the Peace.
State of New Hampshire } August 8, 1832. County of Rockingham ss. }
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Webster who signed the above affidavit and that his reputation is good for truth and veracity, and that his statement is en- titled to credit. Isaac Webster Justice of the Peace.

We Jacob Peaslee and Samuel Huse of Kingston and David Sargent of Newton all in the State of New Hampshire and County of Rockingham do testify and say that we are well acquainted with Samuel Hovey now of Woburn in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and County of Middlesex, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he formerly lived in said Newton, a town adjoining said Kingston, that it is reported and believed in said Newton and Kingston that he served in the Revolutionary War at Portsmouth in New Hampshire as he states, and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Jacob Peaslee, David Sargent Samuel Huse
State of New Hampshire } August 9, 1832, Rockingham ss.
Personally appeared Maj. Jacob Peaslee, David Sargent and Samuel Huse who signed the above affa- davit, and made solemn oath that said affidavit is true, before me
Isaac Webster, Justice of the Peace.
State of New Hampshire } I hereby certify that I am well County of Rockingham ss. } acquainted with Maj. Jacob Peaslee, David Sargent and Samuel Huse, and they are all respectable freeholders and aged Gentlemen whose characters are good for truth and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac Webster, Justice of the Peace.

Debt Jacob Webster for Samuel Favors. ~
for Samuel
John ...

I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that Isaac Webster is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Rockingham and that believe that certificates the signatures to the certificates to the two within depositions are in his own hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of August Anno Domini 1832
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court of Rockingham County

We Benjamin C Wade, a Clergyman, settled in the town of Woburn - County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, & Joel H. Thayer, Apothecary - a resident in said Woburn, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Faxon who has resided in said Woburn about three years; that we have seen the declaration made & sworn to by him in order to obtain a pension for services in the Revolutionary War, and we believe him to be at least seventy one or two years of age, and so far as we have learned he is reported & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Benjamin C. Wade
Joel H. Thayer.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wielden ss. December 25. A.D. 1832. personally appeared Benjamin C. Wade, a Clergyman, & Joel H. Thayer who are credible men & their testimony entitled to credence & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by them signed.
Before Me. Stephen Richardson Clerk of the Court

William L. Young, Esq. State Clerk of the Supreme Court Dec. 1832
Middlesex ss: Dec. 26 th 1832 I Saml P. Fay judge of Probate of wills, &c in the County of Middlesex, do hereby testify certify that it has been made to appear to me that Benjamin C. Wade who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Woburn and that Joel H. Thayer who has also signed the same is a resident in said town & is a credible person; and that that their statement is entitled to credit.
S. P. Fay Probate
Middlesex ss January 3 rd 1833 I Isaac Foster Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County hereby certify that Saml P. Fay whose name subscribed hereunto is above written is judge of Probate for the County of Middlesex; - I also certify that the papers hereto annexed contain the original proceedings of said Court in the application of said person for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto at my hand & affixed the seal of said Court. Isaac Foster Reg

Daniel L. Faxon
3573
James Freeman Johnson - child

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By his Excellency LEVI LINCOLN, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know Ye, That William Beart Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court. And that his signature to the paper annexed is his genuine signature.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty fourth day of August, A. D. 1832, and in the fifty seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor,
Edward D. Dangs
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Left Greenberg Class Per. Sam Haver -

I Greenleaf Clark of Newburyport in the county of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Eighty three years and upwards, do hereby testify and declare, that Samuel Farnsworth, who now lives in Woburn, in the county of Middlesex, was a private soldier, in a company under my command, in the war of the revolution, and served as such in the year 1778, at Rhode Island, the whole of a campaign, in the Regiment under the command of Colonel Washburn. General Sullivan in Chief command. Newburyport August 10th 1832 Greenleaf Clark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ebenezer D. Farnsworth of Newburyport - Then personally came Captain Greenleaf Clark above named whom is personally well known to me, and made oath, in due form of Law, to the truth of the above written declaration by him subscribed in my presence - and I do certify that said Clark is a credible witness.
W. O. D. Justice of the Peace

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Faw, Matthias GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9373 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 22, 1790 To — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.